On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 09:41, Dalibor Topic wrote: > The bad news: we are slower than JDK 1.3.1. Especially > xalan seems to > suffer from class and resource loading. So I'd like to > propose a > new caching scheme for our system class loader: beside > just caching > classes, it should cache the directories (i.e. > packages) in classpath > entries. That should reduce the cost of class/resource > lookup from > linear (scanning the classpath) to constant (single > classpath entry) > for most resources.
I recently read on the gcj list that Mark Mitchell had posted a patch for gcj that did something similar, which dramatically sped things up (especially on some platforms, where file/directory accesses are very expensive). I guess my only concern would be increased complexity and memory requirements for the cache... Cheers, - Jim _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
